3rd G String: How you should focus on practicing your G string.

In most of my blogs, have and will continue to talk about playing a single note at a time, and not a chord.  However, this is not to say that you should not know chords.  Knowing chords, especially the ones commonly used by acoustic guitarists is a part of being a well rounded musician.  So, for this blog, I assume that you already know what a chord is, and that you can play one, and perhaps you know several chords.

A key part of being a good guitarist is having the ability to switch from strumming chords to playing single notes.  The way to achieve this is though practice.  The G string is probably the hardest to do this activity on, and that is why when you practice switching from chords to single notes, focusing on the G string is a good idea.

Perhaps, play a D chord 4 times in rhythm and then play 8 chromatic notes on your G string in rhythm.  Try doing the same with an A5 chord.  Play the A5 chord a few times, perhaps using palm muting, and then immediately follow it with a 6 jigga string exercise.  Maybe play an Em chord, and then play a 3, 4, or 5 note G string exercise, and repeat the G string patterns up and down the fret board.  So it doesn’t really matter where you play your A5 chord for example.  You might play your A5 with an open A, or you might play it at the 5 fret, but what counts is that you switch quickly from that chord to playing a pattern on your G string, which can be moved up and down the fret board.